Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology

Overview

As Trading Platform Engineer, you will own production reliability for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform. You’ll collaborate with trading, Quantitative Researchers, and engineering to keep real-time systems stable, well-instrumented, and responsive to front-office needs. You drive incident response, monitoring improvements, and automation to reduce operational risk. You’ll shape observability and operational standards while supporting live trading workflows. This role offers hands-on production engineering in a fast-paced financial technology environment with a strong emphasis on reliability and incident discipline.

Responsibilities

• Provide production support for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform in a live trading environment
• Monitor system health, workflows, and platform behavior to ensure reliability and rapid issue detection
• Respond to production incidents, drive triage and resolution across trading, development, and infrastructure teams
• Support front-office users by investigating trading issues and answering workflow questions in time-sensitive situations
• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational dashboards across the trading platform
• Develop and enhance automation, runbooks, and operational tools to reduce operational risk
• Perform root cause analysis on production issues and drive follow-up actions to improve resilience
• Support release processes, change management, and controlled production rollouts
• Monitor data quality, platform behavior, and workflow exceptions across trading and market data processes
• Partner with engineering teams to improve recoverability, observability, and operational readiness of trading applications
• Help define and maintain operational standards, support procedures, and production controls

Key requirements

• Strong experience in production engineering, SRE, or application support within real-time or trading environments
• Experience supporting business-critical production systems with urgency and ownership
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Experience supporting front-office users in a fast-paced environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behavior in a Linux environment
• Strong attention to detail, operational discipline, and focus on platform stability
• Ability to work effectively with trading, Quantitative Researchers, and software engineering teams
• Scripting or automation experience in Python or similar

• strong ownership
• calm under pressure
• clear communication
• monitoring and observability
• incident management
• root cause analysis

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